Aeromexico added flights between Mexico City and Barcelona on Thursday 26 March. The 9,500-kilometre service will be maintained 6-weekly, each day except Tuesdays, with the 787-8 and 787-9 aircraft. The carrier will compete against daily Emirates flights between the two cities. Flight AM37 departs Mexico City at 17:20 local time, arriving in Barcelona at 12:30 […]
April 6, 2026 | Latest Route News +
Aeromexico introduced a new service from its Mexico City hub and Cartagena in Colombia on Thursday 20 February. The 2,720-kilometre service will be maintained daily with the 737 MAX 8 aircraft. The SkyTeam member faces no competition between the two cities. Flight MX750 departs Mexico City at 09:30 local time, arriving in Cartagena at 14:30 […]
February 21, 2025 | Latest Route News +
Aeromexico introduced a new service between Mexico City and Tampa on Monday 1 July. The 1,930-kilometre route will be maintained daily with the 99-seat E190 aircraft. The carrier faces no competition between the two cities. Flight AM2740 departs Mexico City at 9:55 local time, arriving in Tampa at 15:15 local time. The return service, operating […]
July 15, 2024 | Latest Route News +
Vivaaerobus introduced five new domestic routes from Mexico City NLU between Monday 8 January and Wednesday 10 January. 8 January: Reynosa (daily) 8 January: Chihuahua (3-weekly) 8 January: Nuevo Laredo (weekly) 9 January: Huatulco (3-weekly) 10 January: Tampico (3-weekly) The ULCC currently faces no competition on any of its new routes as it continues to develop its base at Felipe Ángeles International […]
January 12, 2024 | Latest Route News +
Viva Aerobus carried 11.34 million passengers in the first half of 2023 (January-June). Helped by the cessation of Interjet in 2020, Viva Aerobus has grown enormously. Traffic rose by 20%+ versus 1H 2022 – its previous record – and by 110% over the pre-pandemic 2019. The huge domestic market remained Viva Aerobus’ foundation, with around […]
July 13, 2023 | Airlines, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Aeromexico introduced flights between Mexico City NLU and Houston IAH on Monday 1 May, marking the first US route to be served out of the Mexican capital’s newest international airport – Felipe Angeles (AIFA). The 1,235-kilometre service is maintained daily by Aeromexico’s regional subsidiary Aeromexico Connect and its E190 jet. Flight AM2780 departs Mexico City […]
May 8, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Aeromexico added a new destination in Europe on Saturday 25 March with the introduction of a nonstop service between Mexico City and Rome FCO. The 10,240-kilometre transatlantic route is served 4-weekly with the 787-8 aircraft. The SkyTeam member airline will increase frequencies between the two capital cities to 5-weekly from 1 June and to daily […]
March 27, 2023 | Latest Route News +
The North American market, especially in Mexico and the US, saw air passenger traffic recover far more quickly than in many other parts of the world. But how has the market developed more recently? Using Cirium schedules data we have determined the top 20 fastest-growing airports in North America (Canada, Mexico and the US) between […]
March 23, 2023 | Airports, News & Analysis, North America
According to our painstaking research over the course of 2022, Air Service One estimates that airlines last year launched over 650 new routes involving at least one North American airport. This compares with over 1,250 that we identified in 2021. As travel restrictions were eased in 2021 airlines tried all sorts of interesting new routes […]
January 6, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Similar to last month, it was a relatively quiet period for new route launches in North America. Without the growing number of new services to the new Mexico City NLU airport it would have been even quieter. Air Service One has identified and confirmed 30 new routes that launched in North America during the last […]
October 4, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Copa Airlines became the latest airline to offer flights to the new airport serving Mexico City. On Monday 26 September it launched 3-weekly service on the 2,420-kilometre route from Panama City to Mexico City NLU. The Star Alliance carrier will use its 737-800s on the route. This new route complements Copa’s existing route to Mexico […]
September 28, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Arajet (IATA code DM), the new airline that launched recently in the Dominican Republic, began a 3-weekly service between Santo Domingo and Mexico City NLU on Thursday 22 September. The other two weekly flights take place on Mondays and Saturdays. The 3,100-kilometre route will be flown using the airline’s fleet of 737 MAX 8s, of […]
September 26, 2022 | Latest Route News +